On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:10:09PM -0400, willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:> On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 01:50:58PM +0100, Stephen Torri wrote:> > A friend of mine is critical of linux for not having a multithreaded> > TCP/IP stack. Is that true? If it is not then what kernel version> > introduced it. If it is then when should we expect to see it?> > davem threaded large portions of the networking stack in early 2.3

And it was threaded since day one, just cooperative and not distributed overmultiple CPUs.

A single threaded thing is something like Minix's file system whereonly one process can be active at a time.

-Andi

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